A teacher by profession, but is now in his 38th year as a football writer. Has written for "Soccer Action" (Melbourne), "Australian Soccer Weekly" (Sydney) and "World Soccer" (London), as well as for several Tasmanian newspapers. Currently contributing to "Goal!Weekly" in Melbourne and the Australian magazine "Soccer International". Played for Croatia-Glenorchy, Caledonians, Metro, Rapid and University in Tasmania, as well as in the United States of America. Coached University, Metro and Croatia-Glenorchy.

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Quoting[Anonymous # 7] "I am yet to be impressed by Norval; seems one dimensional to me. Two of kingborough's goals were due to keeper error.]You're dreaming # 7. He is the best keeper in the Victory League by a long way. I've lost count of the difficult ashots he saved this season, his confident sweeper/keeper style is anything but one dimensional. You're just one of the tall poppy knockers because he's a fly-in and not home grown. Norval along with Cairns have proven themselves as skilful / entertaining and one of the highlights of watching the Zebras this season.

The Zebras result just proves that without their 5 V-League players that they push into their squad every week. They are not quite upto the standards on the top SPL teams.

Zebras were a team of 17-20 year olds against Taroona's FIRST team with two players backing up to start after having played in the previous u/20 game. Lets see the Taroona u/18 team play Zebras v-league team and then chat about it?

What would Taroona's u18 team playing Zebras V-League prove? And how is that in any relevance to what I said. I was just stating that if Zebras hadn't stacked their team every week this season then their position on the table might be alot different.

That's like saying if Man Utd didn't start their best side they wouldn't finish top of the league. IDIOT!

They are good because of the players they have compared to other clubs. Not stacking if the quality is there every week.

But the quality wasn't their this week, they didn't have their 5 usual drop backs and they got pumped. Proving they don't have a depth of quality.

Just quietly our keeper got a hand to every single one trying to deflect for a corner 2 of them touched te inside of the post of his hands not really a "clinical finisher"

Hush Hush Dyson, you're embarrassing yourself. It's not your fault they went in, if you had a decent defense line you'd be in for a chance but unfortunately there is not one skilled defender in your team.

I didn't even post this... And that's a pretty big call by you not one decent defender? Wow.

The Zebras result just proves that without their 5 V-League players that they push into their squad every week. They are not quite upto the standards on the top SPL teams.

Zebras were a team of 17-20 year olds against Taroona's FIRST team with two players backing up to start after having played in the previous u/20 game. Lets see the Taroona u/18 team play Zebras v-league team and then chat about it?

What would Taroona's u18 team playing Zebras V-League prove? And how is that in any relevance to what I said. I was just stating that if Zebras hadn't stacked their team every week this season then their position on the table might be alot different.

That's like saying if Man Utd didn't start their best side they wouldn't finish top of the league. IDIOT!

They are good because of the players they have compared to other clubs. Not stacking if the quality is there every week.

The Zebras result just proves that without their 5 V-League players that they push into their squad every week. They are not quite upto the standards on the top SPL teams.

Zebras were a team of 17-20 year olds against Taroona's FIRST team with two players backing up to start after having played in the previous u/20 game. Lets see the Taroona u/18 team play Zebras v-league team and then chat about it?

What would Taroona's u18 team playing Zebras V-League prove? And how is that in any relevance to what I said. I was just stating that if Zebras hadn't stacked their team every week this season then their position on the table might be alot different.

Just quietly our keeper got a hand to every single one trying to deflect for a corner 2 of them touched te inside of the post of his hands not really a "clinical finisher"

Hush Hush Dyson, you're embarrassing yourself. It's not your fault they went in, if you had a decent defense line you'd be in for a chance but unfortunately there is not one skilled defender in your team.

The Zebras result just proves that without their 5 V-League players that they push into their squad every week. They are not quite upto the standards on the top SPL teams.

Zebras were a team of 17-20 year olds against Taroona's FIRST team with two players backing up to start after having played in the previous u/20 game. Lets see the Taroona u/18 team play Zebras v-league team and then chat about it?

To all the rangers haters saying we are no good, fair enough we haven't got the results we have wanted this year buts its not like we are losing by 3+ goals every game we have lost has been by 1 goal bar 2 so it's not like we aren't competitive we compete with the best of sides getting 6 draws because of some stupid mistakes but we are one of the only teams who don't pay players or anything like that so with south Tilford and oylimpia throwing around money it does make it hard for a club like us to be in the top 4 . Dev have done well recruiting this year and also performed well but I think if you watch rangers play we play a good brand of football and have potential to be a good side within the next 2/3 years

Apart from your one import that scored most of your goals??

Shane doesn't get paid like I said no one t our club gets paid

Not on a weekly basis. I'm sure your club paid for him to come to tassie maybe even flights out? Got him a job? So there were still some perks involved. It's not all about money.